FISHING TOURNAMENT

6-22 and 6-23 2012--Had the same group the past two days.  They have fished with me the past two years while entered in a large tournament out of Port Aransas.  The group is highly competitive so we tried very hard both years to win.  Last year they won largest trout  with a 25 1/2 inch sow but the lack of redfish kept them from winning heaviest stringer.  On Friday they waded deep grass beds and caught 19 trout before we started looking for redfish.  We tried wading shallow flooded back lake areas due to the high tides with no luck on reds.  Tournament day,  Saturday,  they wanted to weigh in trout, two reds and one drum for heaviest stringer.  About mid morning with 16 trout to pick from we put the boat back on the trailer and moved 20 miles to where I had more confidence in catching reds.  A friend had sworn me to secercy and told me where a school of reds was hanging out. As soon as the lines were out a red took the bait and then another in short order.  In less than an hour we had 9 reds so we left them biting to go find one black drum.  They got one keeper drum to the boat but lost it and another fish we think was a drum was lost by a hook coming undone.  So we ended up with out a black drum.  I still haven't heard how they did at the weigh in.  I hope they at least placed.